The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
SRI AUROBINDOIf India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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Hidden nature is secret God.
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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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